brooch

Etymology

Variant of broach.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɹəʊtʃ/
• (US) enPR: brōch, IPA^(key): /bɹoʊtʃ/, /bɹuːtʃ/^[1][2][3]
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -uːtʃ
• Homophone: broach

Noun

brooch (plural brooches)

1. A piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
2. A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Verb

brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
   • c. 1606–1607, Shakespeare, William, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25:

     Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me.

References

Etymology

From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʀoːχ/

Adjective

brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)

1. fallow